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Registering |
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- How do I register?
- You can pay the registration fee in several ways, from simply mailing me the payment, to charging it to your credit card over the web. Have a look at my Registration Page for all the gritty details.
- What do I get when I register?
- Once registered, I will e-mail you a registration code, which will "unlock" the program, turning it into a registered version. The registered version will no longer nag at you to register, and (depending on the program) may have extra features enabled.
- Is there some sort of registered version that I should be able to download somewhere?
- Nope. All versions of my software that I distribute are unregistered, but they turn into a registered version when the registration code is entered.
- I paid at PilotGear H.Q., but I don't have anything yet!
- This sort of ties in with the previous question. Some software authors have it set up with PilotGear H.Q. so they can offer "real time fulfillment", where you actually get to download a registered version when you pay. Others, like myself, make an unregistered version freely available, then e-mail a registration name and code that you enter in the program once you install it on your device. That code turns the unregistered version into the registered version. If you're reading this page, then you've probably already figured out where you need to go to download an unregistered version.
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Downloading and Installing |
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- Where can I download your software?
- Why, right here on this very web site! Just pick an application from my main page, and that will take you to a page where you can download it. Once there, just choose which version (Mac or PC) you'd like, and click on the link. If that doesn't work (you may get a page of gibberish), then your web browser is probably not set up to deal with .zip and/or .sit file formats. In that case, just right-click the link (Windows) or click-and-hold (Mac), which will make a little menu pop-up. Choose "Save As...", or something like it, to download it to your hard drive. Don't forget where you put it, since you'll have to find it later to install it!
- What's all this ".sit" and ".zip" business?
- Most files you download from the Internet are compressed to make them smaller, and to keep several files together in one file. The standard on the Macintosh is a scheme called "Stuffit", while Windows folks use a format called "Zip". Once you download the file from my page you'll need to either unstuff or unzip it, depending on whether it ends with ".sit" or ".zip". You cannot install a ".sit" or ".zip" file on your PalmPilot! I recommend Aladdin's Stuffit Expander for Mac users, and PKUnzip for Windows users.
- What's a ".prc" file?
- Once you've uncompressed the file that you've downloaded from here (see previous question), you'll find that it contains a file whose name ends with ".prc". That's a Palm Resource file, and it's what contains the actual application. This file is what you'll install on the device.
- How do I install the .prc file on my Palm/Pilot?
- Not so fast! I know for a fact that this one is in the user's manual!
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SelectHack |
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- What's a hack?
- The PalmOS is set up sort of like a kitchen sink (work with me here). The standard sink is fine for basic use. But if you want to add, say, a water purifier, or a garbage disposal, you can just unscrew a pipe or two, add in the component, hook everything back up, and you're all set. Hacks work the same way--they add functionality to the operating system by hooking in to various parts of it. A program like HackMaster takes care of all the plumbing details, and gracefully deals with instances where two hacks try to hook up to the same pipe. And just as you shouldn't remove a piece of plumbing without turning the water off, you shouldn't delete a hack without first deactivating it using HackMaster.
- I've installed SelectHack, but I don't see it on my Palm/Pilot!
- Since SelectHack is a hack, it won't show up along with the normal applications in the launcher. You'll need to have HackMaster installed, which is an application. When you launch HackMaster, it will list all the currently available hacks, and it will let you activate and deactivate them. SelectHack should show up in that list.
- Where can I get HackMaster?
- HackMaster is made by DaggerWare, and you can find it on their web site. Note that it is also shareware, and you should register it with them if you haven't already. There are other programs that can deal with hacks, but HackMaster is the original and the one I recommend.
- Aren't Hacks dangerous?
- Despite their name, hacks are not really any more or less dangerous than a regular application. Even if you installed a poorly designed hack that caused all sorts of problems, a simple soft reset will deactivate the hack while leaving your data intact.
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Tricorder |
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- How's this thing work? Where are the instructions?
- There are no instructions, apart from a few clues in the "readme" file that should've come with your copy of Tricorder. Part of the fun is poking around and figuring out what everything does. I will say that if you haven't figured out how to "scan" with it, you should try every button (and not just the onscreen ones).
- How do I get Tricorder to work with the Tale Light?
- First of all, you should make sure you have the latest version of Tricorder, since some early versions do not support the Tale Light. One of the onscreen buttons is used to set the "Photon Emitter" mode, and that mode should be either "on" or "pulse". Even then, the Tale Light is only activated during a "scan" (see previous question).
- Where's the sound?
- The current version of Tricorder will look to the "Game Sound" setting in the main Preferences application to see if it should make noise. If you have a Pilot 1000 or 5000, which does not have a Game Sound option, Tricorder will refer to the System Sound setting.
- Can I have the source code?
- I'm afraid that I currently have a policy of not releasing my source code for Tricorder.
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